Tuesday, August 23, 2011

SlashFilm: Trailer For "George Harrison: Living in the Material World"

A brand-new trailer has hit for Martin Scorsese‘s George Harrison: Living in the Material World, an HBO documentary which will air on the channel later this year. Though Harrison was known as “the quiet Beatle,” as the saying goes, still waters run deep. Pulled together from interviews, performances, and never-before-seen footage, as well as interviews with friends, colleagues and peers including Paul McCartneyRingo StarrEric ClaptonTerry GilliamPhil SpectorYoko Ono, and Tom Petty, the film will center around the life and career of the iconic musician, producer, philanthropist, and spiritualist. Watch the video after the jump.

Monday, April 4, 2011

MASHUP: Stanley Kubrick's The Shining / John Lennon's Instant Karma

JY CINEMASHUP - Shine On from Jeff Yorkes on Vimeo.

Stanley Kubrick's horror classic, "The Shining," comes face to face with "Instant Karma," by John Lennon.



The song, as it turns-out, is where Stephen King got the title for his book.



NSFW.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Monday, January 10, 2011

(Infographics) Charting The Beatles

Charting The Beatles

These visualizations are part of an extensive study of the music of the Beatles. Many of the diagrams and charts are based on secondary sources, including but not limited to sales statistics, biographies, recording session notes, sheet music, and raw audio readings.

Working Schedule, 1963-1966
This graphic (the "Tufte Gently Weeps" edition) compares the Beatles main activities from the years of 1963 to 1964.


Song Keys:
The shape of these pictographs is defined by what keys the songs were recorded in for each album.